Uses of Java Outside of The Classroom
The Wisconsin Idea Project
By recognizing the importance of taking classroom and laboratory skills and learning outside of academia, the Wisconsin Idea recognizes that while knowledge alone is good, it should not passively be stored in the minds of the educated, but instead ought to be put to good use outside of academia. I'm go into engineering for this very reason - that I want to be able to apply what I learn here to help solve real-world problems.
Topic
I am focusing on the uses of Java outside of the Classroom. Additionally, I'm touching on Java's history, and the general uses of programming skills in careers, giving a brief overview of other common programming languages, and providing a real-world context for students' skills so that they see the incentive in maintaining their coding skills.
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Target Audience
The intended audience is beginning programming students, especially those learning to program in Java.
Description
While there are many videos on the Internet about how to write programs in Java, there are very few videos that give new programmers a context for their skills. For those of us not majoring in Computer Science, this context would motivate us to maintain our skills after 302, as we would better understand these skill as necessary for careers in a broad range of technical fields. To give this context I've created a YouTube video about the uses of Java and general programming skills.
Links to My Creation
Uses of Java Outside of the Classroom
What's next?
If I had more time and resources I would get better equipment to improve audio quality, as well as trying to do more justice to the other programming languages that I discuss in the video, as I don't currently have as good an understanding of them as I would like.